MikroBus has some unique offerings. The Quail mainboard combined with MikroElektronika Click Boards looks neat. The variety of modules available is very impressive. MikroBus also offers ‘G-Adapters’ to bridge the connection between Click Boards and traditional Gadgeteer type sockets.
To be more precise : it was originated by Justin and me. Do not forget Stephen (scardinale), who has written a good 75% of the drivers (I think)
And we have Niels in the team as well.
Now, about using our boards, the only thing I can say is that all people that have tested them are very pleased because in addition to program a powerful board in pure NETMF, they also have :
enlarged their penis
got a pay rise for those who have a job
got a job for those who did not have one already
seen the return of the beloved
had a French kiss from Gus & Gary (not sure if it is really a feature, though, but that is a fact)
and finally their feet do not stink anymore.
So if you miss one of those cool features, I think you should try by yourself and enjoy the happiness that many others have enjoyed before you
@ Justin - Justin It would be great to have that list and I am sure there are many searching for a comprehensive list. Please divulge, or at least add a few to the list. I will create a table out of the ongoing results.
Thanks.
My first foray into NETMF was with the Nova boards from Sytech but when I went to place an order for more modules in Feb 2013 I was told that the Meridian on which it was based was no longer going to be manufactured due to the processor being end of line.
Simon Taylor was very helpful during my introduction to NETMF so I hope he is still going strong but I think at the time he was talking about large projects he was working on so new development was on hold or slow. The website appears to be unchanged since then and the Meridian is still listed and yet I know that Device Solutions no longer manufacture this.
PS… It was Simon at the time who suggested I check out GHI and that’s when I switched to the ChipworX modules.
@ terrence - The Oxygen board from @ Justin has a 411 on board too. That I’ve got running on NetMf 4.4 talking serial to a Wifi piggy bag board called Neon that has an ESP8266. @ MCalsyn wrote quite an extensive driver for it, the sources for that are on github [url]https://github.com/PervasiveDigital/serialwifi[/url] I only have the NetMf 4.4 binaries for the Oxygen, for further info you have to talk to @ Justin, @ Cuno. You definately need some mDot board adoption if you wanna stay with netmf.
however, if you are up to an adventure and looking into a not so near future you could try llilum on the mDot. All the sources and some good to know info is to be found here [url]https://github.com/NETMF/llilum[/url] there you’ll find the process how to support a new board (kind of) as well.
Running llilum on that lora board might even be a nice addition for the llilum community and get that really interrested. I tried to run some managed .net code running on an alike board and kind of got it running but for very limited LED blink on/off, I didn’t go any further yet …
You could try to search for llilum / oxygen on the forums here you’ll find some discussions. Hereby a little size comparison of the Nucleo (big) and Oxygen (small) boards.
[Edit] : For NetMf to work per USB it uses PA11/PA12 the first one is avail but PA12 is not on the mDot so the standard images won’t work unless you have sources and can change the usb used pins. an advantage with the mDot is that the JTAG pins are avail.
Now that I am thinking of it, if I get netmf or llilum running on the board, that is half the battle. The mDot library that Multitech wrote is still going to be in c++ and that will have to be re-written in c# in order to do LoRa communication.
@ terrence - If you get llilum running, you will have (by example) a solution in VS with a managed .net project (not netmf) and an mbed project with guess once what syntax, oops language …